Western civilization seems to be thrashing about like a feverish patient. Will it recover from civilizational decline, or is this the end of the road? Even with the best interventions by the money doctors, it might not return to its old self, patched up and …
For two weeks just as the quarantine descended I recorded 10 minute homilies on my Facebook feed at the end of each day. This is my wind-up one, full of the lessons oozing out of this challenge. In addition to reflections on the world and …
It wasn’t the kind of romantic love that will cause a baby boom in early 2021. Nor was it the cranky love of too much time with your mate of 30 years. It was accidental-quarantine-housemate love, and I’ll bet there will be many stories …
The natives are restless out here in Quarantine USA. I am too. I want to dance with my friends, hug them in public, browse around thrift stores looking for bargains, shoot off my wide open mouth over coffee in a cafe. I want to touch …
In March/ April 2020, as the pandemic raged, I interviewed a dozen colleagues who’ve carried the torch of sustainability for decades – with great passion, vision and persistence. After years of achieving base camps but never summiting the mountain of resistance to a shift in …
I have spent most of my adult life experimenting and teaching lifestyle choices that actually ripple up from personal change to social benefit. Yet in the face of this pandemic, these can-do approaches to life’s basics sound tinny. Our freedom of motion is constrained. …
What can we do!? We want to feel in control in an out of control time. We want to occupy our minds with something other than worry. Granted, some people are buying toilet paper, hand sanitizer, guns and pretty much anything in grocery stores to …
Covid has blown holes in walls of denial and selfishness everywhere. Poetry and prose and possibilities are pouring out from millions of people around the world. We are one, we sing. Our choices matter to how this turns out, we say. How can I …
Counting the blessings and lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, I’d top my list with a renewed public appreciation of public health. People around the world have been willing to quarantine themselves not just for self-protection but for the public good. We don’t know if …
I wrote the below for the Your Money or Your Life community. I’m reposting it here because I think this virus can be a wake up call for everyone living paycheck to paycheck, spending like there’s no tomorrow, in contract or gig positions that …
